US Patent Issued to Technische Universitat Darmstadt on Aug. 4 for "Production of cannabinoids/phytocannabinoids with a plant extract" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,516, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Production of cannabinoids/phytocannabinoids with a plant extract" was invented by Marcus Geissler (Hochst im Odenwald, Germany), Lisa Niederreiter (Freiburg, Germany) and Heribert Warzecha (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the production of a compound of Formula (I), wherein the process comprises the step of reacting a plant extract having prenyltransferase activity with a compound of Formula (II) and geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP) having Formula (III) to produce the compound of F...